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		BerislavLopac 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine > Async is syntactic sugar that can be reduced to sync code with callbacks The whole point of introducing async was to get away from callback hell.

rafram 9 months ago [–]

Yeah, I’m not saying that callbacks are good, I’m saying that async is a veneer over callbacks.

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